Roger Caldwell observes that James Norcliffe makes poetry look deceptively easy
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Peter Ulric Kennedy, poetry • 0 Comments
Peter Ulric Kennedy critiques Derrick Buttress’ idiosyncratic poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
James Roderick Burns looks for vital signs in an anthology of medical poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Joan Michelson, poetry • 0 Comments
Joan Michelson picks her way through a few flower poems by Peter Phillips
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Graham Hardie, poetry • 0 Comments
Graham Hardie responds positively to the reflective and nostalgic poetry of Lynda Plater
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Emma Lee, poetry • 0 Comments
Emma Lee takes a dip in an anthology of sea poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2016 • Tags: books, Norbert Hirschhorn, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
Rafael Campo and Zeina Hashem Beck are two very different poets and Norbert Hirschhorn enjoys their work in different ways
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, year 2016 • Tags: authors, books, Sarah Lawson • 0 Comments
Sarah Lawson  plaintively asks the question: Why Don’t People Read Benito Cereno When I Tell Them To?
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry, Rosie Johnston • 2 Comments
Rosie Johnston is impressed by Martin Figura’s boldness in applying Catastrophe Theory to the mechanics of human relationships
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, year 2016 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, history, poetry • 0 Comments
Brian Docherty comments on political poems from pre-WW2 Japan by Kosuke Shirasu which have recently been republished in a bi-lingual edition by Jun Shirasu and Bruce Barnes
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry, Thomas Ovans • 0 Comments
Thomas Ovans enthuses over a new (and overdue) collection from Donald Atkinson
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Michael Loveday, poetry • 0 Comments
Michael Loveday gets to grips with the uncertainties and instabilities underlying a new collection from Patricia Debney